At Water’s Edge looks into unexplored corners of ambient electronica to uncover beauty in unexpected places. Music is everywhere–sometimes pretty, sometimes dark, always beautiful. awe.fm
Music is everywhere, in everything: in the hum of a city,
in the pulse of construction machinery or a heartbeat,
in footsteps, in laughter, in breath, in the shuffling of an impatient audience…
and, like John Cage’s “Four minutes and thirty-three seconds”,
all you have to do is sit and listen.
At Water's Edge, 30 January 2016: Blurred Lines
We often think of classical music as being stodgy, elitist, or irrelevant. But in fact classical music is all around us, and informs much of our cultural context. Many musicians with classical background breathe new life into this art form by blurring the lines, either by using instruments in innovative ways, or pushing the boundaries of what we consider to be common practice.
This is certainly true in the ambient music genre as well -- artists blur classical sensibilities and make new sounds and atmospheres, while still somehow remaining grounded in the tradition that they bring forward.
Today's program lives in those blurred lines, with recent works from Joe McMahon, Daniel Robert Lahey, and a new artist in the StillStream pantheon, Takashi Suzuki. And what classically based program would be complete without a track from Doc and Lena Selyanina?
Come explore the blur with us!
Joe McMahon - ERASE (2016)
(Not yet released!)
- Debussy: Cloches a travers les feuilles
- Mentre che'l cor (S. d'India)
- O Solitude (H. Purcell)
Echoes from an Engulfed Cathedral - Doc and Lena Selyanina - Echoes from an Engulfed Cathedral (2007)
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prelude to the afternoon of a thing (thing_329) - Daniel Robert Lahey - (2015)
day after christmas thing (thing_327) - Daniel Robert Lahey - (2015)
intermezzo (thing_328) - Daniel Robert Lahey - (2015)
outermezzo (thing_327) - Daniel Robert Lahey - (2015)
(tonalchemy.com/)
Resonance - Takashi Suzuki (2011)
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- Resonance in Blue 1
- Resonance in Blue 2
- Resonance in Blue 3
- Resonance in Blue 4
- Resonance in Blue 5
- Resonance in Blue 6
- Resonance in Blue 7
- Resonance in Blue 8
- Resonance in Blue 9
- Resonance in Blue 10